MK Tiana’s Bayou Adventure SPOILER Thread

[FiestaFunKid]

I'll give them credit for a good/immersive finale scene after a non-adventurous, boring, souless, sparse attraction, which is perplexing considering the strong film and soundtrack they had to work with.

However, the finale, even with its solid original song, has to be compared with the Zip-A-Dee-Do-Da finale - which is one of the greatest Disney classic tracks of all time (in the conversation for THE greatest)....an idyllic, feels-generating song, which hits you at the perfect time after the tense drop - lifting your spirits back up for your happy MK day (you can prob tell I like that song) .....so even Tiana's best part still falls short of Splash.

 

[Brer Oswald]

I'll give them credit for a good/immersive finale scene after a non-adventurous, boring, souless, sparse attraction, which is perplexing considering the strong film and soundtrack they had to work with.

However, the finale, even with its solid original song, has to be compared with the Zip-A-Dee-Do-Da finale - which is one of the greatest Disney classic tracks of all time (in the conversation for THE greatest)....an idyllic, feels-generating song, which hits you at the perfect time after the tense drop - lifting your spirits back up for your happy MK day (you can prob tell I like that song) .....so even Tiana's best part still falls short of Splash.

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

 

[Agent H]

I’m just going to say this while I agree with most critiques of this ride (I don’t think it’s the worst ride ever or anything though) the queue is imo leaps and bounds ahead of splash

 

[Tha Realest]

I’m just going to say this while I agree with most critiques of this ride (I don’t think it’s the worst ride ever or anything though) the queue is imo leaps and bounds ahead of splash

It is fascinating that an undue amount of attention and care seems to go into the queue vs the attraction lately, especially when they shift more towards “skip the line” schemes

 

[Agent H]

It is fascinating that an undue amount of attention and care seems to go into the queue vs the attraction lately, especially when they shift more towards “skip the line” schemes

Yeah IMO they have gotten really good at making themed queues the last decade or so for instance the queue for runaway railway at Disneyland looks like one of the best they’ve ever done top 10 for sure and I’ve never been to Disneyland but I never get to spend as much time in the queues as I want to

 

[EagleScout610]

I’m just going to say this while I agree with most critiques of this ride (I don’t think it’s the worst ride ever or anything though) the queue is imo leaps and bounds ahead of splash

I think they both work in their own way. Splash's queue was to set up the more rural/countryside feeling to fit alongside Big Thunder and slowly ease you into the world of Br'er Rabbit and friends. Tiana's is more exposition and attempted backstory so the ride makes some sense.

 

[Agent H]

I think they both work in their own way. Splash's queue was to set up the more rural/countryside feeling to fit alongside Big Thunder and slowly ease you into the world of Br'er Rabbit and friends. Tiana's is more exposition and attempted backstory so the ride makes some sense.

Only thing I liked about the splash mountain queue was the wanted posters

 

[EagleScout610]

Only thing I liked about the splash mountain queue was the wanted posters

They could have worked one in for Facilier and had it hidden on a bulletin board or something. Or even Lari if they wanted to go the more "Sneaky character" approach

 

[Tha Realest]

Yeah IMO they have gotten really good at making themed queues the last decade or so for instance the queue for runaway railway at Disneyland looks like one of the best they’ve ever done top 10 for sure and I’ve never been to Disneyland but I never get to spend as much time in the queues as I want to

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is the greatest place setting ever constructed that dumps you into a PS3 on rails game

 

[Tha Realest]

They could have worked one in for Facilier and had it hidden on a bulletin board or something. Or even Lari if they wanted to go the more "Sneaky character" approach

There are more acknowledgements to Imagineers on the ride than the film’s main (and iconic) antagonist

 

[WorldExplorer]

Only thing I liked about the splash mountain queue was the wanted posters

Those are such great visual storytelling; you see them and instantly understand these are the antagonists without even reading the bottom.

Meanwhile the expressive illustrations give you an idea of what their personalities are.

All in a way that feels natural with the setting.

 

[Agent H]

There are more acknowledgements to Imagineers on the ride than the film’s main (and iconic) antagonist

I don’t understand this complaint the reason they didn’t include facilier is corporate was too scared of backlash to let them certainly wasn’t a good idea but don’t blame WDI

 

[EagleScout610]

I don’t understand this complaint the reason they didn’t include facilier is corporate was too scared of backlash to let them certainly wasn’t a good idea but don’t blame WDI

They designed and built an underwhelming product. The blame fully goes to them.

 

[Jedi14]

They could have worked one in for Facilier and had it hidden on a bulletin board or something. Or even Lari if they wanted to go the more "Sneaky character" approach

For Facilier, he’s dead and they know he’s dead, so he wouldn’t have a wanted poster. For Lari, there are notes and messages from employees mentioning missing items that he took for the critters instruments.

 

[Agent H]

They designed and built an underwhelming product. The blame fully goes to them.

But don’t projects get “suggested “ by corporate these days it wasn’t their choice to put a princess and the frog ride in Frontierland and it wasn’t their choice weather or not they had enough audio-animatronics to fill the empty space the blame lays at bob paychecks feet

 

[Tha Realest]

Those are such great visual storytelling; you see them and instantly understand these are the antagonists without even reading the bottom.

Meanwhile the expressive illustrations give you an idea of what their personalities are.

All in a way that feels natural with the setting.

As opposed to the key plot line of Tiana’s not being obvious unless you happened to notice an unchecked task item for Louis on an obscure checklist that also had Easter eggs for the Imagineers involved

 

[Bocabear]

For Facilier, he’s dead and they know he’s dead, so he wouldn’t have a wanted poster. For Lari, there are notes and messages from employees mentioning missing items that he took for the critters instruments.

I don't even know who Lari is....nor do I even remotely seem to care about that character... Was that character in the film? Or was this just an add-on for the ride?

 

[EagleScout610]

I don't even know who Lari is....nor do I even remotely seem to care about that character... Was that character in the film? Or was this just an add-on for the ride?

He even has a whole biography:

Who is Lari the Armadillo? | Disney Parks Blog

You’ve seen him on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and he’s seen you, too. Learn more about Lari the Armadillo and his love of umbrellas and beignets.

disneyparksblog.com

 

[Tha Realest]

I don't even know who Lari is....nor do I even remotely seem to care about that character... Was that character in the film? Or was this just an add-on for the ride?

You haven’t caught Lari-fever? It’s the completely charming, organically popular character, and is absolutely not a cynical ploy to sell more merch (how is the secondary market on Lari toys doing, by the way - are the eBay scalpers leaving enough for the rest of us?)

 

[Agent H]

You haven’t caught Lari-fever? It’s the completely charming, organically popular character, and is absolutely not a cynical ploy to sell more merch (how is the secondary market on Lari toys doing, by the way - are the eBay scalpers leaving enough for the rest of us?)

I think he’s pretty cute and I don’t think there’s any lari toys but I could be wrong about that